Kubernetes Job Trends in Surrey

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 77 86
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 -26
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 62 24 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 2.47% 2.09% 2.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.47% 25.53% 32.54%
Number of salaries quoted 38 12 22
10th Percentile £51,250 - £47,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +5.56% +3.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,188 £75,938
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,750 £81,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -5.26%

All Systems Management Skills
Surrey

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 146 94 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 5.83% 8.19% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 110 66 58
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,938 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63,750 £56,563 £66,875
90th Percentile £73,875 £73,125 £75,375
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Surrey

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Surrey over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Surrey

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 2 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Guildford -11 17 £62,500 -10.71% 16
Staines -11 10 £67,500 -3.57%
Leatherhead - 7 - -
Egham - 5 £65,000 -
Reigate -14 4 £60,000 - 2
Camberley - 4 £53,750 - 7
Woking -18 2 £65,000 -21.21% 5
Godalming - 2 - -
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.06%) IIS
1 5 (8.06%) nginx
2 4 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 46 (74.19%) AWS
2 33 (53.23%) Azure
3 20 (32.26%) GitHub
4 15 (24.19%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (19.35%) GCP
6 10 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (14.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (14.52%) Azure AKS
7 9 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (11.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (11.29%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (11.29%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (11.29%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (11.29%) OpenShift
9 6 (9.68%) Cloudflare
10 5 (8.06%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (8.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (8.06%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (6.45%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (6.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.97%) Firewall
1 13 (20.97%) VPN
2 6 (9.68%) DNS
3 4 (6.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.23%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.61%) 4G
5 1 (1.61%) 5G
5 1 (1.61%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (1.61%) LTE
5 1 (1.61%) Network Security
5 1 (1.61%) NGN
5 1 (1.61%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.74%) MongoDB
2 9 (14.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.06%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (8.06%) MySQL
4 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (6.45%) DocumentDB
6 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.23%) Pinecone
7 2 (3.23%) Redis
8 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (19.35%) Git
2 6 (9.68%) GitLab
2 6 (9.68%) Octopus Deploy
3 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.45%) JIRA
5 2 (3.23%) Claude Code
5 2 (3.23%) MSI
General
1 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.29%) Retail
4 5 (8.06%) Finance
5 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.84%) Legal
7 2 (3.23%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Law
8 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.61%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (20.97%) Developer
3 12 (19.35%) Senior
4 11 (17.74%) Senior DevOps
5 9 (14.52%) Administrator
5 9 (14.52%) DevOps Administrator
5 9 (14.52%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 9 (14.52%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (9.68%) Lead
6 6 (9.68%) Security Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Backend Developer
7 5 (8.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) .NET Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Architect
8 4 (6.45%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (50.00%) Terraform
2 11 (17.74%) .NET
3 7 (11.29%) Spring
4 6 (9.68%) .NET Core
4 6 (9.68%) ARM Templates
4 6 (9.68%) ASP.NET
4 6 (9.68%) ASP.NET Core
4 6 (9.68%) Node.js
4 6 (9.68%) REST
5 5 (8.06%) Hibernate
5 5 (8.06%) Kafka
5 5 (8.06%) Loki
5 5 (8.06%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (8.06%) Spring Boot
6 4 (6.45%) .NET Framework
6 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.45%) Vue
7 3 (4.84%) JPA
7 3 (4.84%) PySpark
7 3 (4.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Hybrid Cloud
1 9 (14.52%) Private Cloud
2 5 (8.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (6.45%) PKI
3 4 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.84%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.61%) IoT
6 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (56.45%) Linux
2 11 (17.74%) Windows
3 6 (9.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.61%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (59.68%) CI/CD
2 31 (50.00%) DevOps
3 23 (37.10%) Agile
3 23 (37.10%) AI
4 19 (30.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (29.03%) Microservices
6 14 (22.58%) Cloud Security
6 14 (22.58%) DevSecOps
6 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure Automation
7 12 (19.35%) Analytics
7 12 (19.35%) Observability
7 12 (19.35%) Software Engineering
8 11 (17.74%) Containerisation
9 10 (16.13%) Mentoring
9 10 (16.13%) Vulnerability Management
10 9 (14.52%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (14.52%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (14.52%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (14.52%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 38 (61.29%) Python
2 22 (35.48%) Bash
3 18 (29.03%) SQL
4 15 (24.19%) Go
5 13 (20.97%) C#
5 13 (20.97%) PowerShell
6 7 (11.29%) Java
7 5 (8.06%) Bicep
8 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.23%) C++
9 2 (3.23%) Perl
9 2 (3.23%) PHP
10 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) AWS Certification
2 7 (11.29%) CISSP
2 7 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.06%) CEH
3 5 (8.06%) CISM
3 5 (8.06%) Degree
3 5 (8.06%) GIAC
3 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.84%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.23%) CCSP
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (14.52%) NIST
3 6 (9.68%) QA
4 5 (8.06%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 36 (58.06%) Docker
2 5 (8.06%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (30.65%) Ansible
1 19 (30.65%) Grafana
2 17 (27.42%) Prometheus
3 9 (14.52%) Proxmox
4 4 (6.45%) Kibana
4 4 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.84%) Argo
6 2 (3.23%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.13%) VMware
3 9 (14.52%) Google
4 5 (8.06%) New Relic
4 5 (8.06%) OpenAI
4 5 (8.06%) Qualys
4 5 (8.06%) Splunk
5 4 (6.45%) Databricks
5 4 (6.45%) SolarWinds
5 4 (6.45%) Zerto
6 2 (3.23%) Oracle
7 1 (1.61%) EMC
7 1 (1.61%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.61%) Huawei
7 1 (1.61%) Nokia
7 1 (1.61%) Samsung